When I lived in London (Y2K) you could take your A-Z (eh to zed) and navigate across the city safely. I mean, if you saw burnt out cars you did a detour and/or stayed on the main road. And you never saw a bobby with a gun.

Crime rates are up up up. It may be safer than Detroit (what isn't) but it isn't what it once was. There are large parts of the city that are no-go at night (can't even get a cab in or across them) and walking is right out in many areas during the day. And ARU (Armed Response Units) are everywhere. Almost any public building has cops with long rifles outside.

It's sad. My limie friends blame lack of border control and eastern europeans. Of course, they also admit, Polish plumbers and Lituanian desk "clarks" make the dang economy work much better now.

The BBC was just reporting a guy who stabbed and killed a man on Oxford Street on Boxing Day last year was found not guilty. I had heard about the stabbing before, but not the details.Apparently the man killed was a gang member who saw the (now acquitted) man, who was an ex-gang member. That man carried a knife in case he ever encountered a gang member and his past caught up with him. It did that day. The current gang member assaulted the ex-, the fight went into several stores, and the ex- ended up stabbing the gang guy.

So if gangs are that adamant about catching up with and assaulting those who leave gangs, I'm guessing they are pretty dangerous thugs. And plenty of them.

(I have not yet been assaulted, but a lot of people feel free to urinate on my quiet street)

That happens all the time in inner city schools here in the U.S. It's called "Wilding". Happens in my school on a semi-regular basis. Sometimes it's even a group of younf men who run through the halls. I've watched this exact same thing play out on video numerous times. Anybody up for a job teaching public school in an inner city setting. Let me see a show of hands. That would be nobody?

How many of you, before you even saw the video, said to yourself, "Bet it's a Black guy."

Since it was the UK, I thought it could be a white guy. (Those soccer hooligans seem to be white). But it's good to know blacks are no different over there. Or maybe it's another case of the US exporting the best of it's culture.

No one should be shocked or angry about the knockout of the teen girl. There was no hate or evil or racism involved, it was just a game. Just think of her as a dart board. No hate no crime, we all know only whites can hate or be racist.

I see McTriumph beat me to the punch with A Clock-work Orange. But speaking of that genre, and speaking as one old enough to see them all in their original at the time of their release, it's sickenly sad that 'Orange, like similar movies about a dystopian future (Mad Max, Mad Max2: The Road Warriors, Escape From New York and The Warriors come immediately to mind) which seemed so over-the-top far-fetched at the time to many seemed all too plausible to some degree or another to me as but the inevitable result of trends (signs?) I was already seeing in the culture at large.. This latest vid yet another confirmation that I wasn't crazy...e.g., is the look of today's Detroit all that far, really, from the post-apocalyptic worlds of a million science fiction stories or Mad Max?

There's always a reason. It may be a crazy reason, but there is a reason

I grew up with the fear that any minute now, the Russians would launch a surprise nuclear attack on the United States - no provocation, no tense relations leading up to that moment. This looks like a surprise nuclear attack.

I tend to avoid "solving" crimes like this based on no information, but, looking at a 34 year old man & a 17 year old girl, my "theory" would have something to do with someone (the man's daughter or son or other relative) getting dissed on Facebook by someone (i.e, the girl). Just a random theory, mind you.

For 10 out of the past 12 years, we have spent December in London. We stopped going last year.

London is very dangerous from street violence. There are usually no visible police and when they are they wear lime-green vests so the crooks can see the cops 2 blocks away.

Self-defense is effectively prohibited, not by the law but by whoosey police and the prosecutors and the judges. The thugs, if caught, are "understood," while the victim who defends gets punished. A 2" Swiss Army Knife (which I've carried every day since age 9,) can get you deported if you are lucky.

Only the "professinals" may defend you and they stay in out of the heat/cold. They are always 8 minutes away while you lie bleading, etc.

Britain lost it's national backbone in WWI and WWII. The genes for bravery and assertiveness aren't in current upper class British sperm.

When you reduce the "on the job" haxards of crime, you get more productivity,more crime.

My wife tells me that when she was a high school student at Madison Memorial in the early 1970's, there was still some discipline, but not for Blacks. She remembers they were able to sass and walk out of class with impunity, and of course no repercussions whatsoever.

Enoch Powell on anti-discrimination laws. "For reasons which they could not comprehend, and in pursuance of a decision by default, on which they were never consulted, they found themselves made strangers in their own country. They found their wives unable to obtain hospital beds in childbirth, their children unable to obtain school places, their homes and neighbourhoods changed beyond recognition, their plans and prospects for the future defeated; at work they found that employers hesitated to apply to the immigrant worker the standards of discipline and competence required of the native-born worker; they began to hear, as time went by, more and more voices which told them that they were now the unwanted. On top of this, they now learn that a one-way privilege is to be established by Act of Parliament; a law which cannot, and is not intended to, operate to protect them or redress their grievances, is to be enacted to give the stranger, the disgruntled and the agent provocateur the power to pillory them for their private actions."

rickThat's one of the benefits of organized crime. Here in KC, at one time there was no violent crime north of Independence Avenue to the International Airport. There were only three patrol cars for a vast area with high population. There was no money in violence.

It is a rite of passage. Similar to gang initiations. It is the manifestation of the natural order untempered by moral constraints. It happens when human life is sufficiently devalued or with a selective respect for individual dignity.

Any veteran of the Gun Control Wars is familiar with these facts: (1) England has a much lower homicide rate than the US (which the Gun Controllers trumpet far and wide), and (2) England has a much higher rate of assault another other violent crimes than the US (which the Gun Controllers ignore as loudly as they can.)

One aspect that not everyone is aware of, though, is that the disparity mentioned in #1 is more or less unchanged since the beginning of modern criminal record-keeping: England had a much lower murder rate than the US back in 1900, too, when gun control literally did not exist, i.e. you could walk into a hardware store in London or NYC, plunk down your cash but NO ID of any kind, and walk out with a revolver and ammo.

In 1905 when London was jammed with population, wages were low, there was no "safety net," Bobbies were unarmed, and ANYONE, even a youth or a madman, could possess a firearm and most gentlemen carried one n their pocket, the crime rate was low and the gun crime rate was nil.

Lyle said...I couldn't actually tell the guy's race on the first viewing. I had to maximize it to see what he looks like.

Could have been any idiot white kid doing it to a foreigner though.

Britain has a pretty nasty underclass regardless.

==================You confuse the possibility of a white youth from the lower classes doing such an attack with the actual frequency....rare..but quite common for Caribbean and African black immigrants to the UK.

Their crime rate is actually higher than the Pakis and Indian Muslims, who exceed the white, E Asian, Hindi, and hispanic incident rates of theft, violent crime.

I always dislike "qualifiers" like IDIOT thug, or "troubled youth" when discussing someone that has done an evil act that merits punishment. The whole idea that all criminals and criminality would not exist if we had Socialist or Democrat "villages" stuffed to the gills with caring nurturing teachers, psychologists, family social services workers and wise lawyers.

Or my dislike of the naive liberal that always tries exculpating minorities so a "stigma of stereotype" doesn't hit the Oppressed...Usually rushing out with some statement of how moral equivalency applies, or how it is ALL our fault as a collective society, or two thousand years back Jews or Japanese were quite violent as well, or tediously explaining that the bomb set off by radical Muslim Arabs "could just as easily have come from Chinese, white Christians, or atheist Swedes..

I have a 4 year od daughter and just got a stab of terror for her future. The big surprise for me was not that the man is black (I'll take your word for it--Ican't tell) instead of Middle Eastern, but that he is 34. I assumed gang initiation. Teenager on teenager violence.

But we should be careful about drawing large societal conclusions. No culture, no matter how great, has ever eradicated the random act of terrible violence. What is new is that it got caught on camera.

(1) There are many evil people on this planet. (2) Many of them are black and many of them are not. (3) Most black people are not evil. (4) Many of the commenters on this site are incomprehensible. (5) I hope the girl is okay. (6) I hope the man that punched her dies in a fire.